Kanban Simulation Game

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Price: $74.99

The Kanban Simulation Game is one of the top simulation games and brings your team together to learn by playing a Lean Pull System Game. It uses standard building blocks, which are sold separately, as the Kanban building blocks kit.

This simulation is supported by the Kanban Presentation. We strongly recommend that they are used together during the training session, because this way your team can experience the true power of what they’ve learned.

Briefly, a Kanban system involves a method of cascading production and delivery instructions from downstream to upstream activities in which nothing is produced by the upstream supplier until the downstream customer signals a need.

A key element of Lean Pull Systems, Kanban is a Japanese word meaning display card or instruction card and it is used as a tool of improvement within the “PULL” system by signaling upstream production.

Just learning the concepts is not enough to feel a deep sense of understanding. By actively experimenting and applying what they’ve learned, in the safe environment of the classroom, yet being able to make mistakes and truly learn what works and what not, the team engages in a new way of Lean thinking that will be very beneficial at the moment when they will actually perform the workshop and put in practice, in the real workplace, what they’ve learned.

Has negotiated a new contract and it must improve their operations to meet the customer requirement

How will they manage to change their way of thinking and improve their operational effectiveness?

There’s one way to discover this: Try out the Kanban Game!

Objectives

The Kanban Game is designed for groups of 6-8 people. If you have more players, just buy more Mega Bloks (micro blocks) or Lego pieces and use the same instructions. The Kanban Simulation can be seen as a competition between teams.

The purpose of the game is to prove the benefits of using the Kanban technique to analyze the current constraints and to increase the efficiencies in the process.

By playing two rounds (assembling robots from Lego, according to the current process and after implementing Kanban) we will demonstrate how we can connect the operations and pull material from previous operation, decreasing the work-in-process.